Why council communications are like undergarments.
by ELIZABETH HUGHES – Elizabeth Hughes Communication.
Remember when our mothers told us not to leave the house without clean underwear, “in case you get run over by a bus”? This advice was less about the horror of being injured or maimed, and way more about being prepared. When...
In the country’s largest ever bribery case, former Auckland Transport senior manager Murray Noone and Projenz MD Stephen Borlase were recently sentenced in the Auckland High Court to five years and five years six months respectively after being found guilty of bribery and corruption. We asked Assistant Auditor-General Local Government...
Eighty percent of local authorities now have audit committees but only 67 percent of them are considered effective. That’s one of the main messages from assistant auditor-general, local government Bruce Robertson as the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) releases its latest observations from council annual audits for the financial...
